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THE 32 ND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP 17-19 December 2010 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Bristol HANDBOOK TAG 2010 would like to thank the following for their support and sponsorship: The Prehistoric Society All material published in the TAG2010 handbook created by the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol is the joint copyright (© 2010) of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, University of Bristol, and identified authors of individual contributions. 1 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol CONTENTS PAGE Welcome 4 Maps and General Timetable 5 List of sessions 9 Session timetable Friday 17 December 11 Saturday 18 December 14 Sunday 19 December 21 Abstracts 28 Social Events 110 Practicalities 110 Exhibitors 112 About TAG 2010 113 List of Authors 114 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol 2 3 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol Welcome to TAG 2010 Bristol! The 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group annual meeting will be held at the University of Bristol between Friday 17th and Sunday 19th December 2010. The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) was founded as a forum in 1979 with the aim of promoting debate and discussion of issues in theoretical archaeology. Its principal activity is the promotion of an annual conference, traditionally held in December and organised so as to be accessible at low cost to research students and others. TAG is managed and steered by a National Committee that meets annually and comprises a representative from each of the university departments that have hosted a TAG Conference. Convening and organizing National Committee meetings, and administering TAG finances, is the duty of the TAG Trustees who are: Colin Renfrew (1979 - date) Andrew Fleming (1979 - 2001) Timothy Darvill (2001 - date) To access information about previous TAGs: http://antiquity.ac.uk/tag/index.html 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol 4 Maps and General Timetable General Map Wills Building (26 on map): Great Hall (registration and various events) Room OCC Room G25 Room G27 Room 3.30 Room 3.31 Room 3.32 Room 3.33 Merchant Venturer’s Building (25 on map): Room 1.11 Room 1.11a Student Union Building Avon Gorge Room (Wine reception and Antiquity quiz) Anson Rooms (TAG party) 5 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol Wills Building Floor Plans 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol 6 General Timetable Friday 17 th December 12.00 Registration (Great Hall, Wills Building) Registration continues followed by: 14.00 – 17.30 Afternoon sessions (Wills Building) 14.00 – 17.30 Exhibition : A picture is worth a thousand words: archaeological practice, past and present (Great Hall, Wills Building) 15.30 – 15.50 Performance : Put your pen down. Part of session S04 (Wills courtyard) 17.30 – 18.30 CASPAR event : The Story of England, by Michael Wood (Great Hall, Wills Building) 19.00 – 20.00 Wine reception (Avon Gorge Room, Student Union) Saturday 18 th December 8.30 - Registration continues (Great Hall, Wills Building) 9.00 – 13.00 Morning sessions (Wills Building and Merchant Venturer’s) 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 18.00 Afternoon sessions (Wills Building and Merchant Venturer’s) 19.00 – 20.00 Antiquity quiz (Avon Gorge Room, Student Union) 20.00 - TAG party (Anson Rooms, Student Union) Sunday 19 th December 9.00 – 13.00 Morning sessions (Wills Building and Merchant Venturer’s) 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 13.00—14.00 TAG National Committee meeting, Rm 1.11 (Merchant Venturer’s) 14.00 – 18.00 Afternoon sessions (Wills Building and Merchant Venturer’s) 18.00 End of conference 7 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol Friday pm (14.00 - 17.30) Saturday am (9.00 - 13.00) Saturday pm (14.00 - 18.00) Sunday am (9.00 - 13.00) Sunday pm (14.00 - 18.00) WILLS BUILDING Great Registration, and S39: Ex- Registration Hall hibition: A picture is worth OCC S22: Archaeology under S27: Making the Bronze Age [breaks: 10.30 - 11.00; 15.30 - S03: Who needs experts? [breaks: 10.30 - 11.00; 15.30 - Communism [break: 15.30 16.00] 16.00] G25 S14: Drawing epistemologi- S26: Visitable S17: Reaching S05: The evanescent milkman S11: Medicine, healing, per- S12: Make-do and mend cal lines in the sand [break archaeologies out to those cometh [break: 15.50 - 16.20] formance [break: 10.50- [break: 15.50 - 16.20] 15.30 - 15.50] [finishing who don't 11.20] 10.50] [starting 11.20] G27 S08: Memories can't wait [breaks: 11.10 - 11.40; 16.10 - S13: 20th and 21st century 16.40] conflict [break: 11.10 - 3.30 S04: An artful integration? S24: Thinking beyond the tool [break: 10.30 - S35: Marxism S20: Going underground [breaks: 10.30 - [break: 15.50 - 16.20] 11.00; finishing 15.30] in archaeology 11.00; finishing 16.00] 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, Univers Group Archaeology Theoretical 32nd [starting 15.50] 3.31 S16: Tradition in question S29: Landscape and symbolic S02: Palaeoeconomy and pa- S40c: General session: land- S40d: General session [break: 15.30 - 16.00] power [break: 10.50 - 11.20] laeoecology of SW Britain scapes [break: 10.50 - [break: 15.30-16.00] 3.32 S10: The forgotten conti- S07: Mortuary archaeology S15: Liminal landscapes S37: Artefact to auditorium S28: Seeing the wood and nent? [break: 15.30 - and popular culture [break: [break: 16.10-16.40] [break: 11.10-11.40] the trees [break: 16.10- 16.00] 11.10-11.40] 16.40] 3.33 S40a: General session: objects S40b: General session: identi- S33: Manifestos for materials [breaks: 10.30-11.00; [break: 10.30-11.00] ties [break: 15.30-16.00] 15.30-16.00] MERCHANT VENTURER'S BUILDING 1.11 S36: CASPAR: audio-visual practice as research [breaks: S01: People-things-places [breaks: 10.50-11.20; 15.50- ity of Bristol 8 Bristol of ity 1.11a S23: Theorising city landscapes [break: S34: Escaping - S38: Pluralist practices [break: 11.10- 11.10-11.40; finishing 15.50] scapes 11.40; finishing 16.00] [starting 16.20] List of sessions Ref Title Day Start time Room No. of slots S01 People-things-places: analysing technologies in Sun 09:00 Merchant Venturer's 1.11 2 an indivisible past S02 Palaeoeconomy and palaeoecology of south Sat 14:00 Wills 3.31 1 west Britain S03 Who needs experts? Counter mapping cultural Sun 09:00 Wills OCC 2 heritage S04 An artful integration? Possible futures for ar- Fri 14:00 Wills 3.30 1 chaeology and creative work S05 The evanescent milkman cometh: archaeolo- Sat 14:00 Wills G25 1 gies of obscure complexities, actions, formation and transformation S07 Mortuary archaeology and popular culture Sat 09:00 Wills 3.32 1 S08 'Memories can't wait' - memory, myth, place Sat 09:00 Wills G27 2 and long-term landscape inhabitation S10 The forgotten continent? Theorizing North Fri 14:00 Wills 3.32 1 America for UK-based researchers S11 Medicine, healing, performance: beyond the Sun 09:00 Wills G25 1 bounds of 'science'? S12 Make-do and mend: the archaeologies of com- Sun 14:00 Wills G25 1 promise? S13 20th and 21st-century conflict: contested lega- Sun 09:00 Wills G27 1 cies S14 Drawing epistemological lines in the sand Fri 14:00 Wills G25 1 S15 Liminal landscapes: archaeology, in between, Sat 14:00 Wills 3.32 1 here and there, inside and out and on the edge S16 Tradition in question Fri 14:00 Wills 3.31 1 S17 Reaching out to those who don't... Inclusive Sat 11:20 Wills G25 0.5 archaeology in theory and practice S20 Going underground: caves, science and theory Sun 09:00 Wills 3.30 1.5 S22 Archaeology under communism: political di- Fri 14:00 Wills OCC 1 mensions of archaeology S23 Theorising city landscapes: boundaries and Sat 09:00 Merchant Venturer's 1.11a 1.5 place in urban space S24 Thinking beyond the tool: archaeological com- Sat 09:00 Wills 3.30 1.5 puting and the interpretative process S26 Visitable archaeologies: problems and possibili- Sat 09:00 Wills G25 0.5 ties in experiencing the past 9 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol Ref Title Day Start time Room No. of slots S27 Making the Bronze Age: craft and craftspeople Sat 09:00 Wills OCC 2 2500-800BC S28 Seeing the wood and the trees: towards a criti- Sun 14:00 Wills 3.32 1 cal multiscalar archaeology S29 Landscape and symbolic power Sat 09:00 Wills 3.31 1 S33 Manifestos for materials Sun 09:00 Wills 3.33 2 S34 Escaping-scapes: the value of -scapes to un- Sat 16:20 Merchant Venturer's 1.11a 0.5 derstanding past practices? S35 Marxism in archaeology, reprised: the continu- Sat 15:50 Wills 3.30 0.5 ing relevance of power, ideology and structural change for an interpretive and socially engaged archaeology S36 CASPAR session: audio-visual practice-as- Sat 09:00 Merchant Venturer's 1.11 2 research in archaeology S37 Artefact to auditorium: aural agendas in the ar- Sun 09:00 Wills 3.32 1 chaeology of prehistoric sound (partly sup- ported by the AHRC ‘Beyond Text’ program) S38 Pluralist practices: archaeology is nothing, ar- Sun 09:00 Merchant Venturer's 1.11a 1.5 chaeology is everything S39 EXHIBITION - A picture is worth a thousand Fri 14:00 Great Hall, Wills 5 words: images of archaeological practice, past and present S40a General papers - Objects Sat 09:00 Wills 3.33 1 S40b General papers - Identities Sat 14:00 Wills 3.33 1 S40c General papers - Landscapes Sun 09:00 Wills 3.31 1 S40d General papers - Miscellaneous Sun 14:00 Wills 3.31 1 S41 Poster session Fri 14:00 Great Hall, Wills 5 32nd Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting, University of Bristol 10 TH FRIDAY 17 DECEMBER S39.